Some Nice BBR Pics...

Paris Green recently passed me a disk of pics from a few of the recent BBR shows. There are some very silly shots in there. I thought I might share them with you.

(Photo credit should go to Mr.Fuzzy Gerdes, Mr. Lee Bey and Mr.Ochoa.)

Your New Desktop. (via Mr. Bey)

Finally, your BBR desktop is available to put on your computer.
Enjoy!

Second Cousin Joe Relaxes (via Mr.Gerdes)

I like this pose for Joe. He's as relaxed as an old Bloodhound, sprawled out on the lawn. It's cartoonishly relaxed. I don't think that normal people ever sit that way. Very silly.

Winkin' Atcha! (via Mr.Ochoa)

Here's a nice shot of the rip in the crotch of my overalls that I intentionally leave there. I'm not worried about my wenis peeping out, because I DO have underwear on. But I DO think it's funny that Joe had a pants blow-out and either doesn't know or keeps forgetting to patch it up. Hendo has gotten no shortage of material out of that tiny hole.
Gross.

Rubbed Up (both pics by Mr.Ochoa)

Sometimes, in the course of a show, I am called upon to get up onstage and "help" the girls with their numbers. Which USUALLY means that they rub up their sexy ladyparts on me and I protect my dingly-dangly boy-parts and generally look terrified by this close proximity to the girls.
I think that this is a small part of why the show works and doesn't get skeevy. I think that if I were smacking the girls on the ass and rubbing my boy-parts on them, the show would lose a little bit of it's veneer of innocence. I think that veneer of innocence helps keep the show from sailing into "darker, dirtier" water. Plus, I don't think that the audience wants me to act that way.
Also, I am, in real life, actually terrified of girls. So, this works out quite well, actually.
Here's another picture of me, being scared by a girl being all sexy on me.


The Clothes Make The Man.

Here's a nice shot of the character's costume. I really enjoy working on a show that actually HAS a costume. It communicates so much to the audience, before the character actually ever speaks.
For Cousin Joe, I immediately got him into the coveralls. Hendo and I thought that it would be fun to have him be a sweet, lovable retard, who nicely counterbalances Jack Midnight's smoky, smooth personality. There's also inherent friction because Jack is stuck onstage with the one guy who is oblivious to how cool Jack really is. So, that's a nice tug of war.
The newsboy hat came next. I think I've worn that thing in every show that I've been in, except the first one. It also gives a nice retro feeling to the character and the show.
The vests, fingerless gloves and neckerchief all came later.
The vests are meant to convey the idea that Cousin Joe sorta' tried to dress up for the show. But the jacket that goes with the vest probably got lost between his apartment and the theater. Plus the vest is also nicely retro.
The gloves show that he is actually a stagehand. In a normal theater, he might be pulling flies in the wings. Thus an actual NEED for the gloves. In the Playground, though, his toughest job is tracking down an errant pair of panties, quickly.
And the neckerchief is actually a nod to Fred from the Scooby Doo show, who wore a white ascot just to remove any doubt about whether he was gay or not. It's also a practical consideration, since some of our summer shows in the PG, get hot as fuck. And I actually need a neckerchief.
I like how the shortness of the vest and the longness of the coveralls make him look longer and taller than he actually is. There's a cartoonish simplicity about Joe that I like. And he makes a nice counterbalance to the look that Jack Midnight has. So, that works too.

Forgive me if this all reads as a little pretentious. I just don't get a chance to actually point this stuff out and share the thought process behind the costume element. So, it's fun to break it down into it's components for a bit and show what's actually going on there.

Oh Lordy! (via Mr.Bey)

I think that Hendo and I really and truly have the best jobs in Show Business.

And One Final Image...

An image that has actually been requested by a friend, who didn't believe that it existed...

I give you...

The Stuff of Nightmares...

Second Cousin Joe Wearing Pasties.


The Horror...

The Horror...

Cheers,
Mr.B